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Aristotle, 21; emphasis on praxis, BharatBhasha (localization soft-
19; virtue ethics, 26 ware, India), 292f., 298
Arts, and CMC/Internet (Japan, bias, cultural, in CMC technologies,
Korea), 266 viii. See also CMC; technological
Asia, documentation of cultural, instrumentalism
communicative differences, 13, bias, English language as, viii. See
32n. 11. See also China; India; In- also English
donesia; Japan; Malaysia; South Biermann, Wolf, 140
Asia; Thailand Bitnet, 100
Asians (included in listserv study), Black May incident (Thailand), 312f.
168; difficulty with English, bodily presence/absence, 135. See
183n. 3; postings from, 170 also embodiment; disembodiment
ASCII, 14, 285; inadequate for Chi- Borg (Star Trek), 17, 27
nese, 286 Borgmann, Albert, 33n. 14, 36n. 19
“atmosphere” (kuuki) in CSCW Bourdieu, 6, 11f., 20, 32n. 10, 37n.
(Japan), 232f., 237n. 11 22, 236n. 4., 242f., 259n. 1; cri-
Australia, indigenous peoples of tique of structuralism, 243; and
and CMC, 36n. 20 Hofstede, 219. See also capital,
Austria, philosophical uses of the power as, 243; cultural capital;
Internet in, 142f. habitus; meconnaissance; sym-
Austrian Society for Philosophy, bolic violence
143 Bhutan (South Asia), 287
authoritarian personality (Adorno), Bijker, W.E. and J. Law (technologi-
35n. 18 cal frame), 11, 213
axioms (mathematics), 21 Brahmanic tradition, contra local-
ization, 15, 300
Babbage, Charles, xi Brezinksi, Zbigniew, 29n. 1
Bach, chorales of as part of Western British colonialism, 5, 289; CSCW,
culture, 320 characteristics of, 218
background knowledge, as part of Buddha, 39n. 29
“thick” culture (Walzer), 318 Buddhism, 26, 36n. 19; and technol-
Bangladesh, 287, 304n. 4; linguistic ogy, 35n. 19,
diversity of, 304n. 3 Burma, resistance to Western val-
Barber, Benjamin, 2, 14, 16, 295f. ues in, 316
Barlow, John Perry (as cyber-gnos-
tic), 23, 38n. 26 Canada, English-speaking—as part
Barthes, Roland, 8, 140 of McWorld, 295; linguistic diver-
Basel (canton), 157 sity of, 304n. 3
Baudrillard, Jean, 58 capital, 11; power as (Bourdieu),
BBS (Bulletin Board System), 308 243. See also cultural capital
Belgium, linguistic diversity of, capitalism, and the cybertourist,
304n. 3 27; free-market—(as Western
Bengali, 288, 299, 304n. 3 value), viii
Berber (language), 151 CATaC’98, 19–23
Bertelsmann, as controlling media, Catholic, participation in on-line di-
80 alogue on abortion, 35n. 17